25/11-10   -   Press releases

budgetplaces.com and RateTiger upgrade their connectivity

The budget hotel booking portal has recently upgraded its integration with the RateTiger channel manager to a full 2-way connection. Now even more hotels and other tourist accommodation establishments using RateTiger’s RTSuite can easily offer their rooms on budgetplaces.com using the 2-way push/pull XML service.

budgetplaces.com is the leading provider of worldwide budget accommodation and has been collaborating with RateTiger since 2005. Many of the 5000 budgetplaces.com partner establishments have joined the booking portal through their use of RateTiger.

RateTiger is a global player used by hotels in 750 cities worldwide and perfectly complements budgetplaces.com’s current expansion strategy. The Barcelona based experts in low-cost accommodation offer budget hotels, hostels, apartments and B&Bs in over 300 destinations, with new cities being added regularly.

The recently completed 2-way XML integration provides a more reliable and safer way of managing reservations across many websites. Establishment owners simply manage their RTSuite calendar. All availability and rates are automatically updated on budgetplaces.com and the hoteliers other distribution channels.

Lead Integration Engineer Cristian Suazo headed the technical implementation at budgetplaces.com. Operations Director Paul Lupson, along with Suazo and specialists from the hotel contracting department, leads the company’s channel manager integrations. This guarantees a smooth integration process with both channel managers and new partner hotels.

Hoteliers using RateTiger who are interested in offering their rooms on budgetplaces.com can get in touch directly via e-mail at production@budgetplaces.com. All information for interested partner hotels is available on budgetplaces.com’s hoteliers´ sign up page for new establishments - http://www.budgetplaces.com/add-your-establishment. Further details concerning channel manager integration can be found on the dedicated channel manager page - http://www.budgetplaces.com/hotel-channel-managers.html.

About budgetplaces.com

budgetplaces.com, part of the EnGrande network, is an on-line booking platform for centrally located, quality accommodation at budget rates. The Barcelona based company offers nearly 5,000 establishments of different categories in over 250 destinations. This means 75,000 hotel beds available at very reasonable rates in the most popular tourist destinations such as Barcelona, London, Paris and Madrid.

budgetplaces.com aims for a target rate of 30 Euros per person, per night, saving travellers an estimated 37 per cent compared to the European average daily accommodation rate (ADR). budgetplaces.com is expanding rapidly, adding more establishments every day and regularly opening up new destinations. More than 21,000 reservations are processed every month and the EnGrande websites register more than 1.2 million hits per month. The forecast turnover for 2010 is 60 million Euros.

You can follow budgetplaces.com on http://twitter.com/budgetplaces and on http://www.facebook.com/budgetplaces.

About eRevMax International

Founded in 2001 and operating in over 65 countries, eRevMax has created a suite of products which has changed the landscape in which hotels distribute their inventory worldwide. The main suite of products offered under the ‘RateTiger’ brand has become the industry´s benchmark for successful tools enabling online distribution management. It continues to be eRevMax’s core objective to bring revenue maximization to the hospitality industry through ´next generation´ innovative e-products.

For more information please visit http://www.erevmax.com